🫙 Jar

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🫙 Meaning and usage

This emoji depicts a glass jar with a screw-on metal lid. Its meaning is highly context-dependent and often extends far beyond the simple object:

🫙 Direct meaning: storage and preservation

Food and cooking: Preserves, jam, pickles, honey, sauces.

Example: "I made cucumbers for the winter 🫙."
Example: "Try my homemade jam 🫙."

Storage: For cereals, spices, cosmetics, bulk materials.

Example: "I poured all the grains into jars 🫙 — now the kitchen is perfectly tidy."

🫙 Abstract and modern meanings

Fundraising, "jar": In Western culture, and now on the Russian internet, a jar is associated with a piggy bank or a fundraising campaign. The emoji has become a symbol of crowdfunding, donations (on streams), or a hint at the price of something.

Example: “We need funds for a new project, please contribute as much as you can to the general fund 🫙.”
Example: "How much is this?" — 🫙 (hint: "How much are you willing to put in the jar?").

Ideas, thoughts, feelings: A metaphor for storing something intangible.

Example: "Opened a jar of old memories 🫙."
Example: "My idea bank is empty right now 🫙."

🫙 "Skeletons in the Closet" / Secrets: A jar as a vessel in which something hidden or shameful is stored.

Example: "Everyone has their own secret 🫙."

🫙 Popular internet trends and memes

Pickle Jar meme: Symbolizes a difficult, almost impossible problem a man faces (referring to his inability to open the jar).

Example: "This bug is my 🫙."

"We Are Not The Same" Community: Used to create contrast, often in a humorous manner.

Example: "You keep jam in a jar. I keep the tears of my enemies in a jar. 🫙 We are not the same."

Cryptocurrencies and NFTs: In some circles, it can symbolize a "hard-currency wallet" or cold storage of assets, similar to a piggy bank.

How it appeared

The 🫙 emoji was approved as part of the Unicode 14.0 standard in 2021 and will be available on major platforms in 2022-2023.
Its addition was a response to user requests for emojis to represent food, storage, and various metaphors that are difficult to convey with existing symbols (for example, a jar is not the same as a simple glass 🥃).

Interesting facts

Late but swift recognition: Despite its recent introduction, 🫙 has quickly become one of the most popular and meaningful emoji of the new generation.
Visual differences: The jar design varies across platforms. Some are empty (Apple), others contain a red or orange, jam-like substance (Google, Samsung), and others are transparent with greenish contents (WhatsApp).
Chameleon Emoji: Its meaning depends almost 100% on the context of the message and the accompanying emoji/text.

Combination with other emoji

Combinations reveal a specific meaning:

🫙 + 🍯 (honey): Direct reference to honey or something sweet.

🫙 + 🥒 (cucumber) / 🍓 (strawberry): Pickles, marinades, jam.

🫙 + 💰 (money) / 💵 (banknote) / 💎 (crystal): Fundraising, accumulation, piggy bank, investments.

🫙 + 😭 (tears) / 💀 (skull): Memes like "tears of enemies," "skeletons in the closet," and dark humor.

🫙 + 🧠 (brain): "Bank of ideas", "knowledge repository".

🫙 + 🤔 (thoughtful face) / 💪 (strength): A reference to the meme about a difficult can that you can't open.

🫙 for SEO content promotion

The 🫙 emoji will be appropriate on platforms and in communities of various types:

Cooking and DIY: Websites about cooking, recipes, canning, healthy eating, and farm products.
Fintech and cryptocurrencies: Savings apps, crowdfunding platforms, finance and investment blogs.
Social networks and messengers: Ideal for Twitter, Telegram, Discord for creating memes, metaphors and hints.
Psychology and self-development: Blogs that talk about emotions, secrets, and personal growth (as a "vessel" metaphor).
Ecology and zero-waste: Websites promoting reusable containers, plastic-free shopping, and conscious consumption.

🫙 is an emoji metaphor. It has evolved from a simple kitchen utensil to a powerful symbol representing accumulation (money, ideas), storage (secrets, feelings), and has become part of modern internet trends. Its versatility is its greatest strength.